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What Should I Get Gateway Core I7 920 2.66 Ghz Or IMac 24" Core 2 Extreme 3.06 Ghz?

I Need This Computer For Video Editing Not Pro But In Full HD, Number Crunching For School, Programming & Of Course Gaming (I Would Run Boot Camp For IMac and easily play Windows Games) If I Get The Gateway I Have To Buy All The Accessories And A Router Roughly Same Price The IMac Has Wireless N My Router Does But No WiFi on Gateway Gateway $1599 Monitor $300-400 Mouse Wireless And Keyboard Wireless $120+ And Router $45 Processor Type Intel Core i7 920 Processor Speed 2.66GHz RAM 9GB DDR3 OS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Processor Cache 8MB L2 System Bus 1066Mhz Hard Drive Speed/Capacity 1TB SATA 7200RPM Optical Drives 18X DVD+/-R/RW with Labelflash Graphics ATI Radeon HD4870 Video Memory 1GB Audio Output 8-Channel 7.1 High Definition Audio Card Intel X58 Ethernet Port 10/100/1000 LAN Intergrated Bluetooth No Integrated WiFi No Reader 15-In-1 Card Reader e-SATA Yes FireWire (IEEE 1394) 1 Back, 1 Front IMac $2200 Student And Business Discount (IMac Released March 4) Processor Type Intel Core 2 Extreme Monitor 24” 1920 x 1200 Processor Speed 3.06GHz RAM 4GB (Exp. To 8GB) System Bus 1066MHz Preloaded Operating System Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard Hard Drive 1TB SATA 7200RPM Optical Drives 8X Super Drive Double Layer Burner Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB Processor Cache 6MB I/O Ports 6 x USB 2.0, 1 x FireWire 800 Included Software iLife '09 Network Card 10/100/1000BASE-T, 802.11n Other Control Devices Apple Keyboard, Mighty Mouse Best Detailed Answer 10 points Right Away Thanks IMac Also Has No Card Reader Can You Overclock The Gateway

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1. Gateway, hands down. The i7 is miles faster than just about any other processor on the market. Although, you could save yourself a lot of money by building the system yourself.
2. For video editing the iMac is the best choice by far. I have that model myself and I actually use it in a professional environment. The video quality is not the same on the Gateway (or any other PC) We have tried both platforms and the Mac is the clear winner for compatibility with several video formats. It comes with iMovie and will do HD beautifully. I recommend Final Cut Express or iMovie HD - free download at Apple.com (predecessor to the latest iMovie versions) if you are really serious about editing. No "overlocking" necessary and card readers are inexpensive - which would be cheaper than buying editing software you'd really need for the Gateway.
3. Overclocking the Gateway depends on the Motherboard installed, but most X58 chipset motherboards can overclock well and support 3 way SLI all in x16 mode. If you like Mac software, go with the iMac. If you like Video Editing on Windows, stick with the Gateway. I'd personally buy two computers, one White Macbook for $1000 to do your Video Editing (use the same monitor and keyboard with a KVM switch) and one mid range $700-$1000 gaming PC that can be upgraded. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227123 Then upgrade your Video Card when games can no longer run as well as you need them to. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-radeon,2151.html $2200 is too expensive for a computer with a 4850 GPU that can not be upgraded. The $1000 Macbook is also very fast (fast CPU in general) if equipped with 4GB RAM for $40 By the Way, the Graphics card in the iMac is a Mini PCI-e card used in notebook computers that is soldered into place. It can not be upgraded, but the 4850 is still pretty fast but retails for $130 in stores and is already obsolete for a $2200 desktop machine.
4. For overclocking the gateway, you probably need to flash the BIOS. However for video editing you're going to do things much faster with a quad-core i7 compared to a dual-core Core 2, as video encoding and editing is one of the few things that can take complete advantage of 4 cores. i7 is much, much faster performance wise compared to a Core 2 because of a brand new architecture and it's also a quad core. You're also getting 9 gigs of RAM.
5. Get the Very High End 3.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Extreme !!! Very well worth it !!!!!!!